Once you have created a Project and associated the Data Groups, you can run searches within your Project Workspace, in order to view returned documents, and visualizations.
To query the Project Data
Ensure that you are within the desired Project, by referencing the selected project at top left of the interface. To change to a new project, see the procedure below.
Provided you are in the correct Project, enter your search term into the Search bar and click Enter. Any applicable documents are returned to the interface, corresponding to your query terms.
Selecting a Project
To select a project
From the Threat Analytics interface, click on the name of the current project at top left.
Find the project of choice in the dropdown menu.
Select the project. You are taken into the new Project workspace, and your search results, as well as any open visualizations are updated accordingly to reflect the data in the Project Data Groups.
Advanced Search and Filtering
When you run queries against your data sources, it is possible to use Advanced Search, for advanced filtering capabilities. Filtering enables you to narrow your results by applying constraints around Entities, Tags, Verb categories, and Weightings.
To use the advanced query builder
From the Search results, click on Filter Results. It is also possible to access the settings by clicking Advanced Search next to the Search bar.
Configure the filters, as described in the table below. Based on the various settings, the search results are filtered accordingly.
Filter
Description
Entities
Search results can be easily filtered by entity type so that only documents including those entity types are returned to Dashboards, score cards etc. For example, filter by person, company, product, location etc.
Tags
When sources are added to the platform tags can be applied. These tags can then be used to limit a query to a subset of documents within a Project based on document tags.
Verb Categories
You can filter returned associations by using verb types. For example, you can only return associations with the verb category "travel," to encompass associations with verbs such as "flew" and "drove".
Weightings
In scoring, weightings enable you to further alter query output results. For example, you can set a central point in time, around which results are promoted. For more information see below.
Click on Search. The advanced query is executed against the sources and the results are returned.
About Weight by Time Decay:
You can set a central date (date and time) around which results will be promoted. Results after that central point in time are demoted as per the half-life setting.
Example: 1m (one month) time decay - results within 1 month of the entered date are promoted to top of results; results between 1 to 2 months from decay time are halved; results 2 to 3 months from decay time are quartered, etc.